Marco Bellocchio's breathtaking new film provides Ida Dalser — Mussolini's alleged first wife and the mother of Benito Junior — the voice and vitality that Il Duce took when he left them in asylums to perish anonymously.
In this full-bore cri de coeur for the missus, the director depicts Dalser as a feisty, resolute, and somewhat delusional woman, rather than some haloed madonna — a figure that's seared into memory by Giovanna Mezzogiorno's impassioned performance.
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